Milestones, Sep. 11, 1978

DIED. Robert Shaw, 51, fiery character actor, novelist and playwright
who parlayed his rugged good looks and powerful screen presence into
late-blooming Hollywood stardom; of a heart attack; in Tourmakeady,
Ireland. Shaw wrote five novels, critically acclaimed in his native
Britain, and rewrote one, The Man in the Glass Booth, as a successful
Broadway play directed by Harold Pinter. But he was best known as an
actor, first on the London stage (Tiger at the Gates, The Long and the
Short and the Tall), later in American movies, where he portrayed a
wide-ranging...